For Explorer Scouts, Good Deeds Have Whole New Meaning (anti-terrorism+illegal immigration, pro-gun) [View All]

Source: New York Times

IMPERIAL, Calif. — Ten minutes into arrant mayhem in this town near the Mexican border, and the gunman, a disgruntled Iraq war veteran, has already taken out two people, one slumped in his desk, the other covered in blood on the floor.

The responding officers — eight teenage boys and girls, the youngest 14 — face tripwire, a thin cloud of poisonous gas and loud shots — BAM! BAM! — fired from behind a flimsy wall. They move quickly, pellet guns drawn and masks affixed.

“United States Border Patrol! Put your hands up!” screams one in a voice cracking with adolescent determination as the suspect is subdued.

It is all quite a step up from the square knot.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/us/14explorers.html

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Because somebody needs to fuel the hate groups of the future.